Archive for the 'New York' Category
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com1 hour, 57 minutes ago
A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.
The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs.
The dino’s species name comes from the […]
Posted in New York, Music, Entertainment, 1940s, Dinosaurs, Paleontology |
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
New York Times
January 26, 2008
Memo Details Objections to Command Center Site
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
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The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in […]
Posted in New York, 9/11, Rudy Giuliani |
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
The Long Run
In a Volatile City, a Stern Line on Race and Politics
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: July 22, 2007
Those were grim days for race relations in New York City, the early 1990s. There were nearly 2,000 murders each year, blacks and whites died in high-profile racial killings, and a riot held a divided Brooklyn neighborhood in […]
Posted in New York, African-Americans, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Rudy Giuliani |
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Bancroft family to meet with Murdoch
Sat Jun 2, 2007 10:46AM EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Representatives of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research, plan to meet with News Corp. (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research chief Rupert Murdoch on Monday to discuss his $5 billion bid for the company, The […]
Posted in New York, Newspapers, Wall Street, Labor, Rupert Murdoch |
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
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May 22, 2007
Onetime Giuliani Insider Is Now a Critic
By RUSS BUETTNER
As Rudolph W. Giuliani runs for president, his image as a chief executive who steered New York through the disaster of Sept. 11 has become a pillar of his campaign. But one former member of his inner circle keeps surfacing to revisit that history in […]
Posted in New York, Fashion, Terrorism, Personal Products, 9/11, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Rudy Giuliani |
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
ABC NEWS
Gun Control Debate Heats Up in Virginia
Families of Va. Tech Victims Stand Outside Rally
May 19, 2007
As Sean McQuade, the final victim of the Virginia Tech massacre to be released from the hospital, wakes up in his own bed, the national struggle over gun control continued this week as two Virginia gun shop owners decided […]
Posted in Business, New York, Virginia, Violence, Guns, Mayor Bloomberg |
Monday, May 14th, 2007
The 2007 New York Auto Show
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Images: (original NY auto show vehicles’ photos) c. C.NET.Networks.com; (Bugatti) edge-inc.net;(Swiss Army knife) (cereals) newquebec.blogspot.com; (dairy) bushrefrigeratin.com; (Basic Instinct still) hiring-revolution.com; (metal grocery cart) retaildesigndiva.blogs.com; (lava lamp) simply70s.com; (radio flyer) ace.imageg.net;
Posted in Business, New York, Automobiles, Industrial Design |
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
A friend in Chicago responded to that May 5, AP headline with:
“No wonder the jails are overcrowded.”
I decided to follow up on the story and discovered that there was more than a one-liner from the event. Here is how the Daily News covered it.
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Images: (chicken) (AP Photo/April L. Brown, FILE); (glasses) blinde.bagel.com
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Please find […]
Posted in New York, China, Health, Cuisine, Crime |
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
March 25, 2007
N.Y. Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention
By JIM DWYER
For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records […]
Posted in Bill of Rights, Republicans, Bush, New York, 2004 Election, Police |
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Passengers stuck on grounded planes tell horror stories
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The stories would have probably been more frightening with a flashlight under the chin of the story teller.
POSTED: 8:24 p.m. EDT, March 17, 2007
Story Highlights
• Passengers say there seemed to be a shortage of deicing fluid at JFK airport
• One angry flyer says he sat on grounded […]
Posted in New York, Transportation, Airlines, Weather |
